In this chapter, we are told that the two of them are different, but that does not matter to either of them. They promise to make each other theirs, even if they were not the same person before. They are both drunk, and the narrator tells us that they have lost sight of their past lives. He asks the doctor if he is okay, but the doctor tells him that he is fine. He tells the narrator that there is another fever, which means that the curse is growing stronger. The narrator tells the doctor that he knows the answer to the question of the night before, and that it was the curse that reawakened their memories and connections. The fever has gotten worse and the master has not returned yet. The slave reappears, but she is resistant to the curse.